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Main article: Penarth
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The following is a list of prominent and notable people associated with the town of Penarth in South Wales.

Armed Forces

"Dambuster" Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, lived in Penarth

Entertainment

  • Lincoln Barrett (born 1979), also known as High Contrast, is a successful drum and bass DJ and producer. Lincoln lives in Penarth.
  • Paul 'Legs' Barrett was manager of Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets for ten years until October 1977 and is well known countrywide as a rock and roll promoter, agent and impresario. He has also managed Jerry Lee Lewis's younger sister Linda Gail Lewis. Paul has lived in Penarth all his life and is married to Lorraine Barrett, the town's Welsh Assembly member.
  • Danny Chang – the Oscar and BAFTA nominated film music composer, former hit recording artist and pop concert promoter has his home and recording studio on Beach Road in Penarth.
  • Shân Cothi is a Welsh operatic singer and actress. She was born and raised, the daughter of a blacksmith in a tiny Carmarthenshire village. She graduated in Music and Drama from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has been honoured with Fellowships from both the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Wales, Lampeter. Cothi lives in Penarth.
  • Rebecca Evans (born August 1963) the Welsh soprano opera singer from the village of Pontrhydyfen near Neath, Wales now lives in Penarth with her family.
  • Mary Glynne (25 January 1895 – 19 September 1954), was a British film actress. She appeared in 24 films between 1919 and 1939. She was born in Penarth and died in London.
  • Denys Graham (born 25 Jan 1895) – TV and film actor born in Penarth. He has appeared in films such as Zulu, The Dambusters and Dunkirk, also TV shows including Angels, Lovejoy and Rumpole of the Bailey.
  • Jemma Griffiths (born 18 June 1975) is a singer-songwriter better known as Jem. She was born in Penarth where she attended Stanwell Comprehensive School and went on to attend Sussex University, obtaining a degree in law. Along with Guy Sigsworth, she wrote the song "Nothing Fails", which was later reworked by Madonna and appeared on her 2003 American Life album.
  • Phil Jones – the professional bass player and electronics genius that founded the international company, with its headquarters in America, that bears his name Phil Jones Bass and makes expensive high end amplification for artists like Sting, Pino Palladino and Jimmy Page was born and brought up in Penarth.[1]
  • David 'Fingers' Land – original bass player with 1970s chart band Racing Cars who had a top twenty hit with "They shoot horses, don't they?" has lived in Penarth all his life
  • Ross Lovegrove (born 1958) – the internationally known industrial designer, best known for his pioneering design work on the Sony Walkman and Apple computers, was born and educated in the town and returns home frequently to visit local family members.[2]
  • Martyn Joseph – was born in Penarth and is a Welsh singer-songwriter. In 2004, he won the Best Male Artist Category in the BBC Welsh Music Awards.
  • Colin McCormack (December 1941 – 19 June 2004) – Actor and member of the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company, famous for his stage, television and film roles over fifty years including Macbeth (1988), The Tempest (1988), Two Gentlemen Of Verona (1999) and Julius Caesar (2002). He was also in the RSC's production of A Clockwork Orange (1990). His TV roles were numerous but included Dixon Of Dock Green (1955 and 1974), Z Cars (1966), Please, Sir (1970), The Sweeney (1975), The Good Life (1978), Yes Minister (1980), Martin Chuzzlewit (1994), Inspector Morse (1987), Casualty (2000) and Longitude (2000). He appeared in several films the latest ones being Let Him Have It (1991) and First Knight (1995). Colin will probably best be remembered by television audiences for his recurring role as Alan in the 1984 science fiction series Chocky and his 1991 stint playing Kevin Masters in EastEnders. He also tutored at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and his students included Ewan McGregor, Alistair McGowan and Daniel Craig. Colin died of cancer aged 63. He was born in Penarth and attended Penarth Grammar School.[3]
  • Robert (Bob) Morritt (born 1944) – former Penarthian.Attended Albert Road School and St.Cyres.Best known in North America for his involvement in the recording industry of Arizona.Composed and recorded tracks at Ramsey Studios(June 1961 "Blackmail"/"The Crash" where Duane Eddy and the Rebels, Sanford Clark and Waylon Jennings all made their earlier recordings.Assisted with the development of [Bear Family Records|" CD titled "Rockin' And Boppin' in The Desert, Volume 2". Morritt is a successful author of Stones That Speak. Echoes From The Greek Bronze Age.also,Just For The Record. Rockin in the Desert'(Amazon) October .2012., and was awarded a five star rating by Arizonian music executives.(A history of the advent of recording in Arizona in which Morritt was an active participant.The book contains biographies of Duane Eddy,Lee Hazlewood,together with an extensive discography.The book has now been included on the Arizona Entertainers Hall of Fame in Phoenix,Arizona.His latest book , Guitar Men, will be published in Britain in April 2013.
Composer Dr Joseph Parry pictured at his Penarth home in 1875
  • Joseph Parry (21 May 1841 – 17 February 1903 ) – a Welsh composer and musician, born in Merthyr Tydfil. He is known best as the composer of the haunting Myfanwy, much loved by male voice choirs and the hymn Aberystwyth. Parry lived most of his later life in Penarth and is buried in St Augustine's churchyard.
  • Shakin' Stevens – also known as Shaky (born Michael Barratt, 4 March 1948, in Ely, Cardiff, Wales) the Platinum selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter, who has the distinction of being one of the top selling UK singles artist of all time, with thirty four Top 40 records and the biggest selling UK male artists during the 1980s, was based in Penarth during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • The Sunsets – Shakin' Stevens's original backing band was formed from mostly Penarth resident musicians, including long serving bassist David 'Batman' Goddard and guitar doyen Cyril 'Cyd' Petherick. The renowned 1950s purist rock and roll band is still based in the town and tours regularly.
  • The Weapons are an indie/punk band with multi national musicians including two from Penarth, Justin and Georgia Griffiths – the siblings of solo artist Jemma Griffiths.
  • Steve Young (Born 1942) – Radio DJ born in Penarth, Steve's family emigrated to Canada while he was still in his teens. He grew up in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and began his radio career working the evening shift at radio station CHAT in 1964. The following year he returned to the UK and applied for a position at Radio Caroline. He joined Radio Caroline South in August 1966. Steve presented the marathon midnight to 6 am show and stayed with the station till its demise. Young now owns a popular radio station in Alberta Canada.
  • Jake Goddard (Born 1987) Presenter on Radio Cardiff and music video producer.

Literature and media

  • Gillian Clarke was born on 8 June 1937 in Cardiff and is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh).[7] She was brought up in Cardiff and was educated and lived in Penarth.
  • Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) is a British historian and military writer. Goldsworthy was educated at Westbourne School, Penarth. Later, after studying ancient and modern history at St John's College, Oxford, he completed a D.Phil in ancient military history from Oxford University in 1994, using his doctoral thesis in his first book, The Roman Army at War 100 BC – AD 200. Goldsworthy was a Research Fellow at Cardiff University for two years and has taught in different university departments where he has produced various articles on Greco-Roman warfare.
  • Martin Hinds (10 April 1941; Penarth, Wales – 1 December 1988[8]) was a scholar of the Middle East and historiographer of early Islam . He co-authored with Patricia Crone the book God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
  • The artist Ray Howard-Jones (1903 - 1996), who grew up in Penarth, painted scenes showing the preparations for D-Day taking place around Penarth and the Cardiff Docks during World War Two.
  • Eric Linklater (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a successful writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history. Linklater was born in Penarth.
  • Denis Alfred Peter Philp (10 November 1920 – 5 February 2006), was a Welsh dramatist and antiques expert, best known for his television series, Collectors' Club. Philp lived in Penarth.
  • Frank Roper (12 December 1914 – 3 December 2000) was a British artist and sculptor. He was one of the most prolific post-War artists undertaking commissions for churches and cathedrals in England and Wales[9] including works for Durham Cathedral, St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Peterborough Cathedral and Llandaff Cathedral. With his wife, Nora Ellison, he made architectural glass and stain glass windows. In addition to religious commissions, Roper sculpted a wide variety of figures for himself, including nudes, bulls, birds and more abstract works. He also made animated sculpture, such as "singing" fountains and water clocks. Roper was also a potter and a calligrapher. He was awarded the MBE in 1991 for his services to art. Roper retired to Penarth in 1973 and lived there until his death.
  • Richard Short (29 December 1841, St Ives, Cornwall – 16 December 1919) was a Cornish artist who painted many scenes in and around Penarth.
  • Alfred Sisley the French Impressionist painter famously stayed in Penarth at 4 Clive Place in 1897. During his time there he married his long-term companion Eugénie Lescouzec in Cardiff Register Office. Sisley created six landscape paintings of the cliffs and coast at Penarth, before making further paintings on the Gower Peninsula. A board commemorating his stay in Penarth has now been erected, close to where he painted an oak-tree on the cliff edge. Sisley's painting of "The Cliffs at Penarth in the evening at low tide" is now in the National Museum of Wales.[10][11]
  • Andrew Phillip Smith (born 1966) is a Welsh writer who has so far specialized in non-fiction in the area of Gnosticism and early Christianity. He grew up in Penarth, and attended the University College of Wales, Swansea. He now lives in California with his wife and son. His published works include The Gospel of Thomas: A New Version Based On the Inner Meaning (Ulysses Books, 2002), The Gospel of Philip: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Paths, 2005) and The Lost Sayings of Jesus: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Paths, 2006). He also runs the small press Bardic Press and has contributed forewords to their books.
  • David Sullivan (born 1 February 1949) – the notorious "Private shops" pornography baron, newspaper proprietor and part owner of Birmingham City FC was born and educated in Penarth. He graduated in Economics from Queen Mary College, University of London. Since 1986 he has been the owner of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport. In 2004, Sullivan was named by the Sunday Times as Britain's 68th richest man, with assets valued at over £500 million.[12]
  • Professor Jim Wiegold (15 April 1934 – 4 August 2009) was a Welsh mathematician. He earned a PhD at the University of Manchester in 1958, studying under Bernhard Neumann, and is most notable for his contributions to group theory. Professor Weigold died in Penarth.
  • Urien Wiliam (7 November 1929 – 21 October 2006), was a noted Welsh novelist and dramatist. Wiliam was born in Barry and lived and died in Penarth.

Politics and public service

Ralph Hancock, renowned Penarth landscape gardener to royalty.
Rt Hon Alun Michael MP

Sport

Rugby player Reggie Gibbs
Colin Jackson lives in Penarth

References

  1. ^ Phil Jones Bass
  2. ^ Ross Lovegrove
  3. ^ Colin McCormack obituary
  4. ^ Steve Parr at IMDB
  5. ^ Hear No Evil Studio, London
  6. ^ Steve Parr at Studio Expresso
  7. ^ Carcanet Press – Gillian Clarke
  8. ^ Edmund Bosworth. "Martin Hinds 1941–1988". Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), Vol. 16, No. 1. (1989), pp. 118–120.
  9. ^ Peter Wakelin, (2004), "An Art-Accustomed Eye", National Museums & Galleries of Wales, ISBN 978-0-7200-0555-4
  10. ^ Reed, N. Sisley on the Welsh Coast Lilburne Press 2008 ISBN 978-1-901167-20-7.
  11. ^ Jones, J. 2/alfred-sisley-impressionism Alfred Sisley: Impressionism on the Welsh Riviera, The Guardian, 12 November 2008. Retrieved 2011-10-20
  12. ^ David Sullivan article in The Times
  13. ^ The Ralph Hancock website
  14. ^ Derry and Toms garden
  15. ^ Rockefeller garden
  16. ^ Margam garden by Hancock
  17. ^ John Smith at Theyworkforyou
  18. ^ Starmer-Smith (1977), p. 13.
  19. ^ The Pit and the Pitch Walesonline 09-12-2005
  20. ^ a b BookOxygen Wonder Girls by Catherine Jones
  21. ^ George Rowles player profile scrum.com
  22. ^ Cricketarchive.com Player profiles
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